Posted on 11/16/2020 9:43:37 AM PST by DoodleDawg
Christopher Ruddy, the CEO of Newsmax, said Sunday that the conservative channel would never become an outlet for President Donald Trump.
But Newsmax would be open to giving Trump his own weekly show once he left the White House, Ruddy said.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
Everything is for sale. If Trump and his backers want to buy Newsmax and make it the Trump network then it's only a question of how much.
That’s okay. CNN is for sell, and I would consider it the ultimate irony if the Donald were to buy that defunct network and make it great again (not that it ever was, of course) . . .
It was great the first month because it was the first cable news channel.
yep, the ain’t enough is all. He knows he’s sitting on a gold mine right now.
The idea of selling something is you no longer have a voice in how it’s run, so this is just noise if that happens.
Christopher Ruddy, That sound pretty arrogant. Trump can buy and sell you.
Isn’t Christopher Ruddy the Clinton Donor? Masquerading as a conservative?
mixed emotions about a “Trump TV”....the goal would be to create a real “fair & balanced” new presentation, imho.
Every issue has a liberal perspective as well as a conservative perspective and if both sides are presented, I think we win.
CNN and MNBC rarely showcase a conservative viewpoint.
Christopher Ruddy just really agrees with the goals of Bill and Hillary Clinton...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2015/02/23/newsmax-boss-chris-ruddy-explains-why-he-gave-to-the-clinton-foundation/
Bill Clinton
The Palm Beach Post interview also noted that Ruddy, disenchanted by the war and runaway federal spending under Bush, re-evaluated the Clinton years and offered a kinder view of the administration he once criticized.[citation needed] Compared with his reporting during Bill Clinton’s presidency, Ruddy eventually took a more subdued view to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. He said she had moderated and no longer generated the same animosity among conservatives. Ruddy told The New York Times he and Scaife had changed their views: “Both of us have had a rethinking. Clinton wasn’t such a bad president. In fact, he was a pretty good president in a lot of ways, and Dick feels that way today.”[33]
In the fall of 2007, Ruddy published a positive interview with former president Clinton on Newsmax.com, followed by a positive cover story in Newsmax magazine. The New York Times said with reference to the event that politics had made “strange bedfellows.”[34]
Newsweek reported Ruddy praised Clinton for his foundation’s global work, and explained that the interview, as well as a private lunch he and Scaife had had with Clinton (which Ruddy says was orchestrated by Ed Koch), were due to the shared view of himself and Scaife that Clinton was doing important work representing the U.S. globally while America was the target of criticism. He also said that he and Scaife had never suggested Clinton was involved in Foster’s death, nor had they spread allegations about Bill Clinton’s sex scandals, although their work may have encouraged others.[35] Ruddy and Scaife again met Clinton for lunch at his office in September 2008. “We had a great time with him,” Ruddy said of the meeting. He added, “We consider Bill Clinton a friend and he considers us friends.”[36] Forbes indicated the relationship between Ruddy and Clinton has continued and described them as “lunch chums.”[37]
During a 2010 campaign swing through Florida, President Clinton departed from his schedule to make a visit to Newsmax’s offices in West Palm Beach. After a private meeting with Ruddy, Clinton toured Newsmax’s offices and met with its staff.[38]
A May 2009 Sunday magazine profile in The New York Times on the former president, “The Mellowing of William Jefferson Clinton,” offered more details of the relationship between Ruddy and Clinton. The Arkansas Times said details about the friendship between Ruddy and Clinton in The New York Times profile was the “most amazing revelation” of their profile of the former president. Ruddy told the Times though he remained a “Reagan conservative”, he had re-evaluated the Clinton presidency and suggested he had earned high marks as president for success in ending welfare, keeping government in check, and supporting free trade. Ruddy also noted that the Clinton Foundation was doing remarkable work globally.[39]
Yeah....I’ve been wondering when Ruddy the Clinton supporter would surface....since his channel’s recent surge, due to FoxIt defectors.
Guess it’s down to OANN, for now....except for Greg Kelly’s great show, in the evenings.
Perhaps the only show that came even close to a true conservative/liberal viewpoint fairly presented was the Hannity and Colmes show in the early days of Fox.
I don’t believe a conservative station should have to present 23 hours of liberal lies, but 1 hour would be bearable as long as it was counterbalanced.
Newsmax needs a daily schedule to step up.
FOX will be sold for a bag of chips and a pack of cigs. They committed suicide starting election night.
I remember during the Clinton years he was on KIEV 870 AM a lot, with George Putnam and Ray Briem. “Carl from Oyster Bay” was one of his reporters. I first heard Carl calling in to Rush early on. I think Carl died in ‘08.
I agree completely, Fox News will be sold for parts, and Tucker Carlson should jump ship before that happens.
CNN
Conservative News Network
Yeah cnn is for sale but think of the fumigation bill just to make it tolerable. Could take years and cost hundreds of lives to get all that bullizh!t cleaned up. Lol
“O’Sullivan’s Law
O’Sullivan’s Law states that any organization or enterprise that is not expressly right wing will become left wing over time. The law is named after British journalist John O’Sullivan.
Television shows are the best examples of this. 24, House. Charitable foundations are worse but harder to see.
One of the reasons for this is leftist intolerance versus right-wing tolerance. Right wingers are willing to hire openly left-wing employees in the interest of fairness. Left-wingers, utterly intolerant, will not allow a non-Liberal near them, and will harass them at every opportunity. The result over time is that conservative enterprises are infiltrated by leftists but leftist enterprises remain the same or get worse.”
It’s what happened to FOX.
This is exactly why I prefer OAN over Newsmax who has Sean Spicer talking BS every time I have tuned in there.
People are so angry at FOX they forgot about the Ruddy/Clinton about face.
And he has given top spots to Sean Spicer, who always scolds Trump, and resuscitated the career of the Trump bashing Mark Halperin.
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